Speech and Social Pragmatics
The Speech-language Pathologists of the Manville School provide assessment, consultation, and direct services for a variety of students, including students with language learning, executive functioning, and social deficits. Students are seen by the Speech-language Pathologists for individual or small group intervention. With a philosophy of “meeting a child where he or she is at”, the SLPs of the Manville School will often create and employ strategies that prove effective for the individual student’s needs, both academic and social.
Additionally, the Speech-language Pathologists co-run large Middle and Upper School social skill groups with members of the Manville clinical staff. In the context of the social skill groups, students are afforded the opportunity to learn and hone social thinking, social pragmatic abilities, and social behaviors that have proven problematic in and out of school. Group lessons are customized for the group members based on observation and parent and/ or classroom team reports of the social difficulties the student has experienced and can range from basic conversational skills to “surviving a party”. Conversely, the group leaders benefit from being able to monitor the generalization of the skills addressed, onsite, during the remainder of the school week.
